Under Ike this was a covert insertion of three hundred, not a leaky, creaky shooting gallery of fourteen hundred.

When JFK moved the site from the original North coast location to one remote from the mountain refuge why did no one immediately call it what it was, an assurance of failure?

Why did no one cancel when the invasion was the buzz on the Miami street and the fodder for the American press--who had somehow forgot that loose lips sink ships?

Stevenson is the perennial buffoon defeated in 1952 and 1956 and whining about embarrassment in the UN. No doubt Dulles enjoyed JFK's increasing discomfiture, recalling Ike's supplying the needed planes at the eleventh hour of the Guatemalan coup.

Ike's observation, "When you commit to violence, you have an obligation to see it through."

Cabell is sensitive to the concerns of the SecState as you note. Outrageously ignoring the president's stipulation regarding destruction of Castro air power on the ground.

Obscene that McBoy George (Dulles' rhymes with witch) is labelled special assistant to the president. "In Charge of Countermanding Orders" we might add.

In Cabell's account he's blocked by Bundy at 9:30 PM, and tries again at 4:30 AM--a delay of seven hours, the invasion is on, the sun is up.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune

Delay it seven hours and it's a tide red with blood

Put a Bundy in the works with a goose like Stevenson, a contrarian like Rusk, a perfect Mickey the Dope like Cabell and JFK is painted as the betrayer

A plan devised by the seemingly absent Dulles

Schwarzenegger said to keep the emotions cool in the gym "because not everyone wishes you well"

Kennedy was surrounded by what Mark Antony described as "honourable men"

Washington, DC, May 21, 2014 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday joined the CIA's cover-up of its Bay of Pigs disaster in 1961 by ruling that a 30-year-old volume of the CIA's draft "official history" could be withheld from the public under the "deliberative process" privilege, even though four of the five volumes have previously been released with no harm either to national security or any government deliberation.

"The D.C. Circuit's decision throws a burqa over the bureaucracy," said Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive (www.nsarchive.org), the plaintiff in the case. "Presidents only get 12 years after they leave office to withhold their deliberations," commented Blanton, "and the Federal Reserve Board releases its verbatim transcripts after five years. But here the D.C. Circuit has given the CIA's historical office immortality for its drafts, because, as the CIA argues, those drafts might 'confuse the public.'"

"Applied to the contents of the National Archives of the United States, this decision would withdraw from the shelves more than half of what's there," Blanton concluded.

The 2-1 decision, authored by Judge Brett Kavanaugh (a George W. Bush appointee and co-author of the Kenneth Starr report that published extensive details of the Monica Lewinsky affair), agreed with Justice Department and CIA lawyers that because the history volume was a "pre-decisional and deliberative" draft, its release would "expose an agency's decision making process in such a way as to discourage candid discussion within the agency and thereby undermine the agency's ability to perform its functions."

This language refers to the fifth exemption (known as b-5) in the Freedom of Information Act. The Kavanaugh opinion received its second and majority vote from Reagan appointee Stephen F. Williams, who has senior status on the court.